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There are some incongruities in the biographical facts which suggest that there may be a confounding of two different Jacob Dotys. In particular, Jacob Doty's first wife, Isabelle Trippe, outlived his second wife, Margaret Garrigus, in an age when divorce was rare. Moreover, the 1850 Census for Medina Township, Warren County, Indiana, shows that 66-year-old Jacob Doty was living with 59-year-old "Eby".